“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.”